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Weekend fun link - demotivation and despair
Like Fabio said, despair is a running theme of much fiction, but did you also know that it’s a central emotional component of most organizations? It’s true. A student sent me a link to thi… more →
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weekend fun link - demotivation and despair
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brayden wrote 1 week ago: Like Fabio said, despair is a running theme of much fiction, but did you also know that it’s a … more →
sadam hussein's management style
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fabiorojas wrote 1 week ago: Loyal orghead Thorfinn draws my attention to the following post about the Baathist dictatorship in I … more →
sustainable practices and profit
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brayden wrote 2 weeks ago: Last night I attended a Northwestern domain dinner for faculty on campus interested in sustainabilit … more →
IQ and achievement: pinker is kinda right and kinda wrong
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fabiorojas wrote 2 weeks ago: In the New York Times, there is an essay by Steven Pinker, who goes after Malcolm Gladwell. Fair eno … more →
organizing music
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Teppo wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve used various conducting/conductor-related clips in my teaching, here’s a smattering … more →
alternative forms of organizing production
Teppo wrote 2 weeks ago: “World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms” (WWOOF, here’s the wiki primer) is an … more →
organizational identity and ethics: the case of the idf
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fabiorojas wrote 3 weeks ago: The New Republic ran an article by Moshe Halbertal about the Israeli Defense Forces and the problems … more →
sociology faculty in leading departments: analysis by daniel schneider
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fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: Daniel Schneider of the Princeton sociology department was nice enough to share his research on the … more →
is academic celebrity the best kind of celebrity?
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fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: I finished reading Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up. It’s a good book, and I’ll blo … more →
generalized reciprocity
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Teppo wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a video of Wayne Baker presenting his work (with Sheen Levine, former orgtheory guest b … more →
problems with governance ratings
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brayden wrote 1 month ago: Via Gordon Smith, check out this new paper by Robert Daines, Ian Gow, and David Larcker that looks a … more →
where does manufacturing fit in obama's new foundation?
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seansafford wrote 3 months ago: President Obama has been invoking the phrase “New Foundation” when he talks about the economy. The … more →
open source: market or community?
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Teppo wrote 3 months ago: Über-hacker/activist Eric Raymond, author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar book/manifesto, characteri … more →
the superstar effect
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brayden wrote 3 months ago: My colleague in Kellogg’s management and strategy group, Jennifer Brown, has done some interes … more →
what the knowledge economy is and isn't: a biased perspective
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Teppo wrote 3 months ago: There’s been lots of debate and discussion about what the knowledge economy is and isn’t … more →
we're #37! we're #37!
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fabiorojas wrote 4 months ago: Thanks goes out to Evan Carmichael who included us in his list of top #50 human resource/organizatio … more →
variety reducing organizations
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brayden wrote 4 months ago: I just got back from a much needed three week vacation with the family and feel well rested and read … more →
evidence-based living etc
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Teppo wrote 5 months ago: Now we’re talking — the current issue of Wired magazine has a fascinating set of article … more →
why do social scientists long for the past?
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Teppo wrote 5 months ago: Social scientists have a certain longing for the social arrangements of the past. That longing surpr … more →
